Posted on 05/26/2022 9:34:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The number of people turning out for the Georgia primary this week certainly put paid to the Democratic claim about the election law that was passed in 2021. Democrats had falsely claimed that the law was a “Jim Crow” effort to restrict the vote. That was untrue; it even increased the opportunities to vote. But the turnout also showed that Georgians were in no way hindered from voting.
However, there is an underlying, fascinating number that is worth talking about — the incredible increase in the GOP primary voting numbers.
The new commonsense election integrity laws have made it easier to vote and harder to cheat.
The numbers from Georgia primaries don’t lie. Voter participation is up 96% for Republicans! pic.twitter.com/stqHoPkaKc
— GOP (@GOP) May 25, 2022
Georgia GOP primary turnout by year:
2006 – 419,254
2010 – 680,499
2014 – 596,218
2018 – 608,380
2022 – 1,109,506— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) May 25, 2022
Republicans up 96 percent and Democrats up 26 percent? That definitely kills the restrictive voting story, since both went up.
But it also shows a remarkable increase for the Republicans that we have to talk more about. Now, a percentage of that is crossover voting — about 7 percent Democrats, who asked for a Republican ballot and voted Republican in an open primary, as my colleague Sarah Lee noted. There’s no question that some of those were Democrats doing a vote against the Trump-endorsed candidates for governor and Secretary of State, as my colleague Joe Cunningham observed. It’s also quite possible that Georgians saw Brian Kemp as the more likely candidate to beat Stacy Abrams than David Perdue, and that was the paramount thought going on there.
But even if there was a certain percentage voting against Trump-endorsed candidates, there’s another important point to be made here–that even without that 7-percent crossover, the enthusiasm for the GOP candidates was up considerably and far more than the Democrats. There are likely a number of crossovers who aren’t doing it to be anti-Trump, but because they’ve had enough with Biden and the Democrats, inflation, and rising gas prices. You now have a whole block of parents who have been charged up over things like CRT, gender identity and all the chaos being pushed by the Democrats.
You also had terrific numbers for the Trump-endorsed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Herschel Walker with both getting around 70 percent. So what does that say about the crossover?
Walker’s numbers in a contested primary vs. Warnock’s numbers are a warning for Democrats.
It’s actually much worse than that: Walker got more than 100K votes than Warnock.
Either voter suppression in Georgia is already working or Dems are just not that interested in voting.
This bodes very poorly for November.
pic.twitter.com/ICxGzFAyFa— Mona Sigal M.D. (@MonaSigal) May 25, 2022
The enthusiasm seems far higher for the Republican candidates than for the Democratic candidates, and it’s one more indication that a tsunami is likely on the way in November. This is a big data point screaming good news for Republicans if they stick with sense all the way to November.
It isn’t ultimately about Democrats trying to play politics over Trump or Jan. 6 or whatever Democrats would like to be pushing. It’s largely about the economy and that’s what’s going to sink the Democrats– both in Georgia and elsewhere.
Sorry, but MANY, MANY Demonrats changed their party affiliation!! They WILL change back!
“Yet we’re supposed to believe that all those additional voters just couldn’t wait to vote for Kemp. Something smells…”big league.”
Over 7% of Democrat voters, voted in the Republican Primary. These numbers are meaningless when there is a large crossover vote.
Then they doom their fellow Georgians
You obviously don’t live in Georgia
That is the part that shouldn't be allowed. If you vote R in the primary you should have to vote R in General. You can change back to D after the General election.
Yep, just give up now.
“A Republican who is with America 95% of the time is better than are.ocrat who is with America 5% of the time. We need to stop bashing Republicans who has a different view on x than we do.”
Good luck with that. I agree with you, but the “if they aren’t 100% with ME they are RINOs” crowd will never stop. Even though they could, say, save millions of babies with an incremental approach, they’d rather condemn them all than save “only” half. (They’ll burn for it, IMO, but that’s not my judgement to make.) They want it all their way all the time. They think they can win it all in one fell swoop, no matter how many times they lose.
7% of Dems still doesn’t make up a majority of the 300k R vote advantage over the Ds. More like 20% of the difference. Double that to 40% (subtracting that 20% from the Rs and adding it to the Ds) still gives the Rs a 180k voter advantage. And that was in the primary.
“...should have to vote R in General”
Uh, you are not party restricted in the General. Else why even have elections? Just count party registrations.
“Still gives the Rs a 180k voter advantage.”
They also did not have any truly competitive race or real reason to show up. I always believe the Repubs have the advantage in GA though. The only reason Trump lost in 2020 was through election fraud.
Let’s hope that things are different this year, the fraud limited somewhat. Likely will be since the Establishment Republicans won’t be supporting (allowing) it as much. The Republicans don’t have to get rid of the non-establishment orange man.
AMEN,, but the PUBBIES are SO PSTUPID !
They are not stupid. They are worse the Democrats. Democrats tell you up front they want to kill babies and raise your taxes to do it while controlling everything you do.
Republicans are for the exact same thing, but they tell you they are for the opposite.
At least the Democrats are open about their deceit.
I’d rather have two German divisions in front of me, than three French divisions behind me.
BS. If Trump endorses a ham sandwich you vote for it and ask for more mustard. This isn’t game we are at war and losing badly.
I can think for myself and would never vote for a ham sandwich because someone told me and Purdue sucked.
How so?
It didn't.
You trolling again as usual?
Nonsense.
Republicans are for the exact same thing, but they tell you they are for the opposite.
Are you on crack or born just yesterday? Where were you during President Trump's massive tax cuts?
Not as stupid as you.
You conveniently forget to mention the tough new anti ballot fraud laws that Dementia Joe and Abrams were constantly whining about. They even called it “Jim Crow laws”.
You paid trolls are out in force here ain't ya?
You must be really worried about losing Georgia.
Chuckle.
RCP Kemp vs Abrams:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/governor/ga/georgia_governor_kemp_vs_abrams-7538.html
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